May 2019
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I was struggling with the title but to be honest I can’t think of another way of describing it. An estimated 1.5 to 2 million children were killed during the Holocaust. How many were killed in Auschwitz is not clear but if you consider that for example on October 10,1944 800 gypsy children were gassed,
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Throughout history the 21st if May has not been kind to many royals, it appears that a high number of Kings,Queens and emperors perished this day. Since the calendar has changed a bit some of the earlier records are estimated to have been on May 21. Emperor Da of…
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Many people believe that the industrialized scale killing of Jews, Homosexuals, Roma and others in Auschwitz started immediately when the camp had opened. However, for the first few weeks there were only 30 prisoners. On May 20,1940 the first 30 numbers were assigned to German prisoners who had been designated as professional criminals. They were
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On this day in 1631 the city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years’ War. In November 1630, King Gustavus sent his colonel Dietrich von Falkenberg to…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: World War II brought momentous change to America’s Chinese community. For decades, Chinese were vilified in America, especially in California, the center of the U.S.’s anti-Chinese feelings. The Chinese had initially come to California for the Gold Rush and later the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, but public sentiment…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I hang my head in shame. For decades I have been boasting about my knowledge of all things music, and especially rock music,when suddenly it hits me like a wet fish in the face, I KNOW NOTHING. Well that might be too harsh but the fact is I had…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I could not call myself a genuine Music buff without looking back at the life of the subject of one of Rock N Roll’s most iconic songs, Peggy Sue. The very title of the song could have been different altogether, the song was originally called “Cindy Lou”, after Holly’s…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This must be one of the most amazing events I came across but amidst all the killing,torture,deportations and other horrors in Camp Westerbork, they actally found time to set up a football competition. The competition was made up of several teams of Jewish inmates and started in spring 1943,…
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I often wonder how many really died during the Holocaust and where they did stop being considered a fatality of the Holocaust? I think the real numbers are much higher because I don’t think the numbers include victims who died after the war as a direct result of the Holocaust. Dr. Leonhard Levy was born
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927 in Bath Township, Michigan which killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults and injured at least 58 other people. Kehoe killed his wife and firebombed his farm, then detonated an explosion…
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